Kalonzo Musyoka playing games with supporters as he looks for relevance

Wiper leader Kalonzo Mosyoka. [Harun Wathari, Standard]

Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka is on a mission to maintain relevance in a presidential transition year.

In transition, sitting presidents hand the instruments of power to the declared election winner because the Constitution says so. Thus, President Uhuru Kenyatta will hand over power to the official winner of the August presidential election as per the law and constitutional requirement. That will not be Mr Musyoka because he is not a candidate. Instead, Mr Musyoka finds himself in the political fix of trying to be relevant. While he succeeds in being visible and heard, he is hardly felt; so near and yet so far.